The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-13
WHOM EVERYBODY KNOWS.
What the Newspapers Say of Persons
Who Are More or Less Famous.

What the Newspapers Say of Persons
Who Are More Less Famous.
The crazy King Otto, of Bavaria,
chiefly amuses himself by looking at Illus
trated papers, peeling potatoes and MAX
ing cigarettes.
The mother of W. G. Quantrell, the
noted guerrilla, still lives at Canal Dover,
o., and firmly believes her son is still liv-
ing and will one day return home.
Mrs. Sheridan was regarded as one Of
the handsomest women seen at the Phil
adelphia celebration. Her eyes are large,
brown and beautiful, and she has
special fancy for brown costumes, which
are an admirable match for those attract
i've eyes.
Before leaving Kissingen Prince Bis
marck always ascertains his weight, and
he was this year gratified to find that it
had remained the same as last summer,
207 pounds. Before Bismarck intrusted
himself to DIR. Schweninger he weighed
forty pounds more.
J. T. Trowbridge, the author, has
grown rich in an easy and pleasant way.
He is one of the principal stockholders in
the company which owns all the availa-
bic land or cottages at tKennebecport. Me.
The rapid rise in the price of land at that
resort has made the stockholders wealthy.
Commander Chief Fairchild of the
Grand Army of the Republic, has stopped
smoking, after having been addicted to
the habit from young manhood. He
abandoned the fragrant weed Just seven
weeks ago, after he had been informed
by several physicians that its continued
use accounted for badly inflamed tonsils,
which seriously troubled him. He has
noted great improvement in the condi-
ton Of his throat, and says, in voice in
which there is slight tinge of regret,
that he has undoubtedly smoked his last
cigar.
President Carter, of Williams college,
the other day gave the members OF the
sophomore class the views of the trustees
on cane rushing aud hazing. He in
formed them that one of the conditions
upon which they would be allowed to re-
main in the baseball league was that all
cane rushing and interference with the
freshmen must be given up. He told the
| class frankly that if a man were caught
in this business he would suffer severely,
and he hoped that the ''canebrakes and
bullrushes on the banks of the Hoosac
river were cleared away" The presi-
dent also gave the freshmen class talk
on smoking and drinking.
When Gen. John G. Fremont walked
into the rooms of the Pacific railroad
| commission the commissioners stood ur
and greeted him heartily, and the law
yers, one after another, were introduced
to him and grasped him kindly by the
hand. People and the newspapers have
talked lately about the general being Ole
and feeble. Old, he is; but feeble-not
at all He carries his "A years with g
step as springy and form as straight as
they were when he carved a pathway
over the Rocky mountains to the new E
Dorado forty years ago. His snowy white
hair and whiskers are as neatly kept a.
were his blonde locks in the days when ht
stole the heart of pretty Jessie Benton, il
spite OF her fathers protests. He Is pass
ing his autumn days quietly down q.
Point Pleasant, on tile New Jersey coast
and has gathered about him there tn,
materials for history of his life that
written by himself and his charming
wife, will doubtless be vivid pen pict
ture of some q the most interestin.
events of the last half century of thi
country's history,
Signor Tancredi de Savoiroux, tn,
member of the Italian commercial expe
dition whose liberation from the clutche
of the Abyssinian leader, Ras Alula, La
lately been forced, did not have a par
ticularly comfortable time during his i'm
prisonment. For seven months of th,
ten during which he was captive hi.
feet were SO chained together that h,
could not take a single step. He wa
also chained by the arm to the arm of al
Abyssinian soldier, the latter bein;
changed every week. He had to sleep oi
the bare earth-to sleep, let it be under
stood, only when it pleased his compan
ion to repose. In Ike manner he had II
sit or stand or move when it suited th,
sweet will of the Abyssinian soldier Th
few who saw him in the midst of his suf
ferings testify to his uncomplaining Sc
renity, Only once did he lose his pa
tience-and it is Salembeni who wrote i
to Savoiroux's S mothcr-and that wa
when, writes Salimbeni: Mai Plan,
and myself, wearied out with our suffer
ings, discussed the commission of sui
eide. Then Savoiroux grew angry, ant
SO strongly dissuaded US from that vii
thing, as he called it, that we neve
spoke of it again"
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